当时不知道那狭窄的小屋通到哪里，就只好还站在那儿，不料却无意亲眼看见我的房东做出一种迷信的动作，这很奇怪，看来他不过是表面上有头脑罢了。

• when,ignorant where the narrow lobbies led,I stood still,and was witness,involuntarily,to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord,which belied,oddly,his apparent sense.